Have hesitated a long time, zuzulegen a DVD / HDD recorder, it should be a Panasonic and were always right teuer.Nach the death of my VHS recorder I was now so pleased about the consumer-friendly Preisentwicklung.Habe me the DMR-EH 545 EGS, despite the somewhat contradictory reviews risen and am most pleasant surprise: easy setup, user-friendly Menüfüh -rung and excellent picture and sound quality are really convincing for the price. At least with regard to the basic functions (recording / playback HDD, DVD playback), the negative reviews I can not understand so far, in the more advanced features (editing, etc.) would have to einfuchsen certainly. For werbegestreßten users of commercial broadcasters is of particular benefit that you can skip the advertising on the "Skip" function in 1-2 Schrit th. As a rather ridiculous shortcoming could call the missing in standby mode time display, but for the recorder then scores with the appropriate configuration again with a very low standby power consumption of 0.3 watts according to instruction. So I can call this device as recommended all round!